Bill Text: NY S03236 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Enacts the "well water and water supply education act".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-04 - PRINT NUMBER 3236B [S03236 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S03236-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3236--B 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 3, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enacting the "well water and water supply education act" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "well water 2 and water supply education act". 3 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 1102 of the public 4 health law is amended and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as 5 follows: 6 (b) If the local board of health of the health district wherein the 7 violation or noncompliance occurs, fails to enforce the order of the 8 commissioner within ten days after its receipt, the corporation furnish- 9 ing such water supply or the municipality, state, or United States or 10 state or United States institution, park, reservation or post deriving 11 its water supply from the waters to which such rule or regulation 12 relates, or the commissioner, or the local board of health of the health 13 district wherein the water supply protected by these rules is used, or 14 any person interested in the protection of the purity of the water 15 supply, may maintain an action in a court of record which shall be tried 16 in the county where the cause of action arose against such person, for 17 the recovery of the penalties and consequential damages incurred by such 18 violation, and for an injunction restraining the person violating such 19 rule or regulation from the continued violation thereof. 20 4. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any action to 21 recover damages brought by the person, officer, board, or commission EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08459-03-6
